Author Topic: New guru: kickstart (Read 9307 times)

ober · « **on:** August 03, 2009, 08:47:35 PM »

We would like to welcome our latest guru, kickstart. Your posts and help have not gone unnoticed. Congrats and welcome! We hope you continue to help our community thrive.

nrg_alpha · « **Reply #1 on:** August 03, 2009, 08:51:41 PM »

Congrats kickstart!

KingPhilip · « **Reply #2 on:** August 03, 2009, 08:54:39 PM »

Congrats!

roopurt18 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 03, 2009, 09:20:26 PM »

It took me almost a full day to realize my status had been changed. Let's see how long it takes him!

PugJr · « **Reply #4 on:** August 03, 2009, 10:12:46 PM »

Good job, kickstart.

corbin · « **Reply #5 on:** August 04, 2009, 12:18:52 AM »

Congrats!

GingerRobot · « **Reply #6 on:** August 04, 2009, 04:47:23 AM »

Congratulations! You deserve it.

KevinM1 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 04, 2009, 07:30:46 AM »

Maq · « **Reply #8 on:** August 04, 2009, 09:18:42 AM »

Congrats!

Daniel0 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 04, 2009, 09:20:44 AM »

Congratulations indeed

.josh · « **Reply #10 on:** August 04, 2009, 10:31:12 PM »

corbin · « **Reply #11 on:** August 04, 2009, 11:55:06 PM »

Hrmmm.... I don't think he's noticed yet.

PugJr · « **Reply #12 on:** August 05, 2009, 12:19:41 AM »

We can't have the party without kickstart!!!

kickstart · « **Reply #13 on:** August 06, 2009, 04:34:39 PM »

Hi

Thanks all.

Did notice fairly rapidly (and someone PMed me to congratulate me which was a bit of a give away), just tend to stick in the php and MySQL area rather than in other areas like this

.

The MySQL keeps me sane when I have to use M$ Access too much at work.

All the best

Keith

Maq · « **Reply #14 on:** August 06, 2009, 04:38:50 PM »

It's about time. It only took you 3 days to realize

roopurt18 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 06, 2009, 04:50:23 PM »

You get to use Access at work? You lucky dog! I'll trade your Access any day of the week for my FoxPro <shudder>

kickstart · « **Reply #16 on:** August 06, 2009, 06:24:58 PM »

Hi

Foxpro is one I haven't used. Have used DB2, Dataquery, Oracle, SQL Server and even had to use IMS.

Access has too many things that are non standard, and seems to have an obsession with pointless brackets when doing joins. Also won't allow you to use constants in an ON clause when doing outer joins.

And its dates are a complete nightmare as it seems to randomly decide whether you mean ddmmyyy or mmddyyyy.

All the best

Keith

PugJr · « **Reply #17 on:** August 07, 2009, 02:12:47 AM »

Kickstart, do you copy paste the "Hi-all the best-Kieith" every single time you make a post or is there a way to make it so it does that automatically considering every post of yours I've seen has that.

kickstart · « **Reply #18 on:** August 07, 2009, 05:20:29 AM »

Hi

Type it each time, but complete habit as I have been doing that for posts on forums / bulletin boards for over 15 years.

All the best

Keith

fenway · « **Reply #19 on:** August 07, 2009, 08:12:12 AM »

It's not like SQL Server dates are any fun either.

.josh · « **Reply #20 on:** August 07, 2009, 09:26:18 AM »

Quote from: PugJr on August 07, 2009, 02:12:47 AM

Kickstart, do you copy paste the "Hi-all the best-Kieith" every single time you make a post or is there a way to make it so it does that automatically considering every post of yours I've seen has that.

Yeah...people have a tendency to put the same thing at the end of posts all the time. It would be great if there were some place we could add things like that and it gets automatically placed on the bottom of the post every time. That way we wouldn't have to type it out every time. I'm kind of surprised nobody has thought to do this before....we should submit a request to SMF to make such a feature.

nrg_alpha · « **Reply #21 on:** August 07, 2009, 11:00:57 AM »

CV, you forgot to use the

smiley...

gevans · « **Reply #22 on:** August 07, 2009, 11:15:31 AM »

Quote from: nrg_alpha on August 07, 2009, 11:00:57 AM

CV, you forgot to use the smiley...

If SMF had a system in place for this, CV wouldn't have to add the smiley everytime, it would be there automatically!

roopurt18 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 07, 2009, 01:28:26 PM »

I've not had any problems with SQL dates fenway, so I'm not sure what you're on about?

FoxPro dates can sometimes have the year portion set to 0, which really caught me off guard the first time I encountered it extracting data from FoxPro.

It took me a year and a half to reach this conclusion, but if you ever have to extract data from FoxPro, do it with FoxPro. Nothing else works 100% of the time.

kickstart · « **Reply #24 on:** August 07, 2009, 05:05:30 PM »

Hi

Down side of an automatic sig is the odd time when you really do not want to use it.

Have used SQL server a bit but never had major issues with the dates with it. But then never had to do much date processing with it.

Oh for the simplicity of storing a yymmdd date in a fixed decimal(7,0) field.

All the best

Keith

fenway · « **Reply #25 on:** August 08, 2009, 01:54:17 PM »

MySQL is perfectly happy storing zeros in dates too -- which is sometimes quite useful -- but the ugly way to extract a date from a datetime in SQL Server always makes me barf.

MadTechie · « **Reply #26 on:** August 10, 2009, 05:46:40 AM »

a little late but still congratulates kickstart

All the best

~~Keith~~ Richard

corbin · « **Reply #27 on:** August 10, 2009, 01:55:56 PM »

Errrrrr.... Don't we have automatic signatures? They just happen to have a HR before them and a couple buttons ;p.

keeB · « **Reply #28 on:** October 20, 2009, 12:19:21 PM »

Welcome

Gayner · « **Reply #29 on:** October 31, 2009, 08:00:44 PM »

Quote from: kickstart on August 07, 2009, 05:20:29 AM

Hi

Type it each time, but complete habit as I have been doing that for posts on forums / bulletin boards for over 15 years.

All the best

Keith

Your almost as old as me!

gizmola · « **Reply #30 on:** November 10, 2009, 03:17:37 PM »

I'm late as well, but nevertheless, thanks for your contributions.

kickstart · « **Reply #31 on:** November 25, 2009, 04:51:24 AM »

Quote from: Gayner on October 31, 2009, 08:00:44 PM

Your almost as old as me!

Probably older. Been programming for a living for longer than that.

All the best

Keith

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